THREE LITTLE BIRDS APIARIES BLOG

Today was a busy day of painting and injecting bees for an important experiment. We painted 600 bees from 3 colonies. Each colony had a...

This week is my last week in Louisiana at the Honey Bee Research Lab. Today we continued a project I previously worked on where we placed...

Though the Wallace-Carver Leadership Symposium was officially at a close many of us decided to take a tour of the National Botanical...

Today was filled with so many memories and adventures. I will never forget this experience. We started early in the morning and made our...

We started bright and early this morning and made our way to the Whitten Building for the United States Department of Agriculture. We...

On July 31, we visited the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. This is a view from the National Agriculture Library of a small...

On Monday, July 30th, I left Baton Rouge for DC. After arriving, we had a quick orientation. Above is a photo of the materials we...

Press Release from The World Food Prize

Today was my last day in the lab before my trip to DC for the Wallace Carver Fellowship Symposium. For the past three days we have been...

I finally had an opportunity to do some "real" lab work. I was given the opportunity by one of the scientists at the lab to take some wax...

Today I worked a special project with some of the LSU students. We sampled emerging bees and determined if they were infested or...

A co-worker and I made our way back to New Orleans to explore. We visited the Insectarium and the Aquarium and many other tourist...

We spent the day pulling pupa from frames and putting them into dishes. This task is not easy, as you pull the pupa out it is easy to...

Today was a busy day in the field. I went past the border to Mississippi! We spent the entire day going through 40 colonies. We were...

These past two weeks have been busy. One of the scientists I have been working with and many of the lab employees took a trip to North...

This week has been full of work at the lab. We are currently working on a project for APHIS that involves emerging bees. We are tagging...

Today was filled with fun, exciting and unusual finds. I started with helping a few students with a part of their thesis project. I had...

Today was a fun and different day at the bee lab. Besides pulling and injecting pupa. We took a "snack break" to celebrate Pride Month....

Today was filled with many different tasks. The photo above is of me completing a mite-wash. This is the process of finding a rough...

Yesterday and Today was filled with lab work. We cut the abdomens off frozen Honeybees, ground them into a buffer solution and diluted...